So I run my own FTP server at home via Boost. Sometimes I'll need to download a document or two from it that contains sensitive information. Hence, I finally switched the FTP daemon to do secure connections via TLS/SSL.
I realize the encryption that now takes place will eat up some of the bandwidth that I was otherwise getting via FTP, but I have a feeling something's gone awry here or my FTP box sucks. I can't download faster than 200Kb/sec from this box now.
reply to Network Guy overhead of ssl in traffic is pretty insignificant. however depending your settings and computational power of your system, encryption/decryption could limit your transfer speeds. -- [Sig removed by Administrator: signature can not exceed 20GB]
reply to Network Guy your ftps transfer shows 2megabytes per second.. how's cpu usage on client and server during ftps transfers? -- [Sig removed by Administrator: signature can not exceed 20GB]
reply to Network Guy I have an ftps (ftp over ssl) running on port 990 and i don't see any noticeable overhead. Maybe there's an issue with servu itself, I'm using filezilla.
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